Assistant Principal Report - Junior School and Wellbeing

Our new Year 7 students are settling into high school very well and it was great to see so many parents attend out Meet the Tutor sessions.  These were held over Webex and were an opportunity to meet the Tutor teacher and one of the coordinators, find out information about how to best support your child and ask questions.

Student Achievement:

Over the last couple of weeks we have held Year Level Assemblies to acknowledge academic achievement in Semester Two 2021.  Usually this occurs at our Celebration of Student Achievement in December, but due to restrictions we were unable to hold the celebration evening.  It was a pleasure to recognise the outstanding effort and achievement of the following students who were placed in the top 5% of their Year Level:

Year 8 Semester Two 2021

Hannah Birch

Sienna De Forest

Katelyn Emmanouil

Ashleigh Franks

Jemma Holt

Feodor Ivanov

Amara Ly

Hana-Joy Ly

James Milnes

Eva Murdoch

Tea Rajak

Nicolas Shrestha 

Charlotte Shepherd

Anne Teoh

Erika Tran

Lachlan Wadeson

Year 7 Semester Two 2021

Abigail Arculus

Milla Bruce

Grace Chiapetta

Jemma Fleming 

Hannah Downward

MacKenzie Ford

Harry Heath

Georgie Henry

James Hepworth

Mitchell Holden 

Stephanie Phelps

Mia Sardellis

Kayley Spathis

Isabelle Tait

We were also able to formally introduce our Junior School Leadership Team for 2022:

Junior School Captains

Hannah Birch

Oscar Botterill

Vice Captains

Max Fitzgerald

Feodor Ivanov

Leadership Team

Lochlan Bradley

Sienna De Forest

Thomas Reiter

The Bentleigh/ Cheltenham RSL Citizenship Awards were presented to Juliana Bal and Oscar Botterill.

The Wendy Hamilton Food Technology Award was presented to Kino Nagata.

Toilet Facilities:

We have been disappointed with the behaviour and conduct of a small number of students in relation to the disrespect shown to the bathroom facilities at the college.  There were some hardware issues (broken locks and soap dispensers) and these have now been rectified.  This is sometimes challenging due to delays in being able to obtain replacement parts.  As a result, we have increased our monitoring of the general bathroom areas and apply appropriate consequences in relation to students caught doing the wrong thing. This has resulted in some students being disallowed from the area.  Please discuss with your child and encourage them to talk to their Year Level Coordinator if they have any concerns about the toilet facilities.